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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-53541 EUVD-2026-64203GHSA-prj9-97mp-mwh2GO-2026-5552

OliveTin has Unvalidated `ot_`-prefixed Arguments that Bypass Input Filtering

Published Aug 21, 2026 · Updated Aug 24, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

OliveTin gives access to predefined shell commands from a web interface. The `filterToDefinedArgumentsOnly` function in the executor is intended to discard any arguments not explicitly defined in the action's configuration. However, prior to commit ebffd9f040f791208aee1db2e5a8aecd1e3e603d, a special case allows any argument whose name starts with `ot_` to bypass this filter. While two system arguments (`ot_executionTrackingId` and `ot_username`) are injected by OliveTin and overridden, all other `ot_`-prefixed arguments supplied by the user pass through unmodified. These bypassed arguments are not type-checked — the validation loop only iterates over the action's defined arguments, so `ot_`-prefixed arguments skip all type safety checks entirely; set as environment variables — via `buildEnv()`, with completely unvalidated values, and passed to the executed command; and included in the template context — available as `.Arguments.ot_*` in template rendering. Commit ebffd9f040f791208aee1db2e5a8aecd1e3e603d contains a patch.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OliveTin OliveTin <= 2025.03.07 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin < 0.0.0-20260531214440-ebffd9f040f7 0.0.0-20260531214440-ebffd9f040f7 GHSA-prj9-97mp-mwh2

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